Young Boys seals 6th Swiss soccer league title in 7 years after rallying from firing coach Wicky
Release time：2024-05-21 09:31:51 Source：Stellar Standpoint news portal
GENEVA (AP) — Young Boys sealed its sixth Swiss league title in seven years by winning at Servette 1-0 on Monday to complete a late-season rally after firing coach Raphaël Wicky.
Wicky, the former Chicago Fire and United States Under-17s coach, was fired in March after losing three games in a week. Under-21s coach Joël Magnin took interim charge.
Young Boys will enter the revamped 36-team Champions League in the qualification playoffs round in August because Switzerland no longer has a direct entry into the main phase. Young Boys played in a group with Manchester City this season.
Needing just a point at Servette in the second-to-last round, Young Boys took all three on Guinea defender Mohamed Ali Camara’s header in the 73rd minute as a severe rainstorm swept across the stadium.
Young Boys moved nine points clear of second-placed Lugano which lost at Zurich 2-1. Servette is four points further back, meaning Lugano will finish runner-up and enter the Champions League in July at the second qualifying round stage.
The champion from Bern has 17 Swiss league titles to tie Servette in third place on the all-time list.
___
AP soccer: https://apnews.com/hub/soccer
- Previous：Four people killed in a house explosion in southwestern Missouri
- Next：Siblings trying to make US water polo teams for Paris Olympics
Related articles
- Why US Catholics are planning pilgrimages in communities across the nation
- Revealed: Billy Vunipola was TEETOTAL for almost two years
- Billie Eilish announces 'Hit Me Hard and Soft' arena world tour
- Paramount Global's Bob Bakish is stepping down as CEO
- Not so Cool Britannia! Noel Gallagher gives damning verdict on Keir Starmer
- Conservative states challenge federal rule on treatment of transgender students
- Tesla's stock leaps on reports of Chinese approval of driving software
- Philips will pay $1.1 billion to resolve US lawsuits over breathing machines that expel debris
- Verona confirms Serie A status for another year after beating Salernitana
- Investors trying to take control of Norfolk Southern railroad pick up key support
- Siblings trying to make US water polo teams for Paris Olympics
- Irish boxing champ Amy Broadhurst switches to Britain in Paris Olympics bid
- Powerball: Oregon authorities reveal winner of $1.3B jackpot
- Sea off New England had one of its hottest years in 2023, part of a worldwide trend
- The unstoppable duo of Emma Stone and Yorgos Lanthimos
- Two more people sentenced for carjacking and kidnapping an FBI employee in South Dakota
- A second new nuclear reactor is completed in Georgia. The carbon
- Tigers and Cardinals rained out, will play a traditional doubleheader on Tuesday
- Adams, Reyna, Turner, Ream are US concerns ahead of Copa America
- Matt Ryan will join NFL Today, Simms and Esiason depart
Random recommendation